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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
6.8
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess. Director:Fritz Lang |
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Norah Larkin
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Richard Conte | ... |
Casey Mayo
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Crystal Carpenter
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Harry Prebble
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Jeff Donnell | ... |
Sally Ellis
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Richard Erdman | ... |
Al
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Ruth Storey | ... |
Rose Miller
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Ray Walker | ... |
Homer
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| Nat 'King' Cole | ... |
Himself
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Storyline
In Los Angeles, on the day of her birthday, the telephone operator Norah Larkin decides to celebrate dining alone at home, with the picture of his beloved fiancé, a soldier overseas, and reading his last letter for her. In the letter he tells that he met a Japanese nurse and he wanted to get married with her. Norah, completely upset, accepts to blind date the Don Juan and photographer of calendar girls Harry Prebble. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, and Norah drinks six strong cocktails Polynesian Pearl Divers and gets completely drunk. Harry takes her to his apartment and tries to force Norah to have sex, and she uses a poker to hit Harry on the head. On the next morning, she wakes-up in her apartment with her two roommates, but she can not remember what happened. When she reads the newspaper, she finds that Harry is dead and the police has her handkerchief, her high heels and her blue gardenia and is chasing the woman that killed the famous wolf Harry... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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(USA) See more »Also Known As:
La femme au gardénia See more »Company Credits
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Written by Bob Russell and Lester Lee
Performed by Nat 'King' Cole
Arranged by Nelson Riddle See more »
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Sally enjoys reading bloody thrillers written by Mickey Mallet - a spoof on Mickey Spillane, whose novels featuring Mike Hammer are just as gruesome as those Sally describes. See more »Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Perhaps unaware that his hands on the keyboard are visible in the mirror behind him, Nat 'King' Cole plays a strikingly different piano arrangement of "Blue Gardenia" than the one we are hearing. See more »Quotes
Casey Mayo: [on the phone] If you want your picture on the paper, you'll have to go out and kill somebody first.See more »
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"Blue Gardenia"Written by Bob Russell and Lester Lee
Performed by Nat 'King' Cole
Arranged by Nelson Riddle See more »
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